A Simplified CE Stopping Criterion for BICM-ID System
The iterative process of bit-interleaved coded modulation iterative decoding (BICM-ID) leads to the increase of computational complexity and decoding delay at the receiver, although it owns remarkable bit-error-rate (BER) performance both in additive Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel and Rayleigh fading channel. A variety of the stopping criteria are put forward to reduce the unnecessary iterations in the process. This paper presents a simplified cross-entropy (CE) stopping criterion based on CE criterion, which sets self-adaptive thresholds for different SNRs to decide whether to calculate the CE in the receiver. Simulation results show that the simplified CE criterion can obtain a better performance and lower computational complexity. The iterative number of the simplified CE criterion is about 12.2% less than the conventional CE criterion.